Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-05-27
6enerdl Oems.
DOMESTIC.

at Key West. Florida.
Asevere thunder storm and gale struck
Washington and Alabama, Tuesday.
The pope fully sustains the course of
Archbishop Corrigan toward DR.. Nc
Glynn.
The losses by the fires in Michigan.
which are still burning, are computed at
81 5000, 600.
Gen. James l.. Selfridge, "A hero of the
late war, committed suicide at Philadel-
phia the other day.
The secretary of the treasury has issued
a call for all the outstanding 3 per cents,
amounting to S19,7l7, 500.
Five persons were drowned in the Del
aware at Port Richmond. Pa. sunday by
the upsetting of a small boat.
1t is proposed by the treasury depart
ment to try the experiment on the Pa
ciiic coast of substituting paper currency
for gold.
-N'INVll 10 ~ ulI. llllIld3'l VI l'lt
Philadelphia Umbrella company. is char
ged with cmbezzling $4,000. He has
absconded.
The l0O-milc bicycle road race at Clarks-
vile. Mo-. was won sunday by Nelson
of Boston. who made the distance in 6
hours t. minutes.
United States Land Commissioner
Sparks says that about twenty-five million
acres of land will be taken from the rail
ways and thrown open to settlement.
Charles b. Reynolds was fined S25 and
cost in New Jersey for blasphemv in
writing and circulating a pamphlet at
lacking the Christian religion. He was
defended by Bob lnger>oll.
William +. kis>elburgh. the brilliant
and able managing editor of the Troy
Times. died Friday morning of Bright's
disease. the fatal results of which an iron
will had long enabled him to fight of.
Fourteen years ago Il farmer of Rum
ford. Me-, killed his son during Il quarrel
ana buried him beneath the barn. 4.
farm hand discovered his employers
secret, but kept it until the old mans
burial Il few days ago.
Egmont Won Tilly, a German count,
killed himself Monday. He was former
ly an officer in the Prussian army, and
was well educated. \ love affair of
some 10 years ago in Germany is said to
have caused his suicide.
The ocean steamers Celtic, from Liver
pool, and the Britannia, from New York,
collided during "A fog. $50 miles Oft Sandy
Hook, May 10. Both vessels were o II
siderably damaged and four steerage
passengers on the Britannia were killed.
The vessels returned to New York in
company.
Senator Platt. who with w other
Senators went to the Indian Territory to
investigate certain allegations in regard
to the injustice of turning out certain
traders for political reasons, has returned
to Washington not favorably impressed
with what he saw of the fruits of civiliZa-
ton among the savages.
\ Frenchman named De La Tourosse,
said to be "A French nobleman, a resident
of Boston, sought to prevent his daugh-
ter from leaving that city Thursday for
France, and hurriedly boarded Il Shore
Line train. He was without "A ticket or
money, and the conductor threatened to
have him arrested for evading his fare.
As soon as the conductors back was turn
ed he leaped from the train and was
killed.
The Pittsburg and Lake Erie road,
owned by Pittsburg and Boston capital
lists, is urging the interstate commission
to suspend the fourth section of the new
tive portion of its traffic between Pitts
burg, New York and Boston. This is
opposed by the Pennsylvania railroad,
which would be benefited by a refusal of
the commission to grant the request OF
the Pittsburg and Lake Erie.
The official count of treasury funds
began at Washington Monday. The ex-
animation will involve an actual count of
all the money in the treasury, including
Sl37 COCOON paper money in the reserve
vaults, sos 100000 in the cash vault, $780,
600, 900 in standard silver dollars, S25,-
10000 in gold and a smaller quantity OF
fractional silver. The count is rendered
necessary by the appointment of a new
treasurer, Mr.. Hyatt of Connecticut.
The Canadian Pacific railway company
is ~endeavoring to secure from our govern
ment permission to bond goods ON the
steamship line from San Francisco to